Shen Yun’s Three Companies on Final Home Stretch
Suddenly it’s already May, and Shen Yun’s three companies are in the home stretch of their respective 2013 tours.
After returning from Europe, New York Company just finished a run of very successful performances at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and is now in Philadelphia. International Company is wrapping up its Florida performances and heading to Mexico. Touring Company has just performed its last show in Japan and is en route to Hawaii, where it is performing this weekend, followed by two shows in upstate New York.
These are the final two weeks of Shen Yun’s annual world tour.
Hundreds of thousands of people in 17 countries around the globe have now seen Shen Yun’s 2013 program. At each show, audience members—including renowned artists, musicians, athletes, and dancers—have showered the performance with praise.
In Paris, award-winning figure skater and Olympic medalist Philippe Candeloro said: “The body movement within their technical gestures are so artistic and so smooth that it makes for a perfectly beautiful choreography.”
In New York City, former ballerina Julie Brunner Cross said Shen Yun was “breathtaking” and “incomparable to anything else.”
In St. Petersburg, Florida, theater producer Johnny Green, who has 40 years in the music and entertainment business, called the entire production “amazing,” adding that, “to be entertained and educated at the same time is a wonderful thing.”
In Yokosuka, Japan, Azerbaijani classical pianist Safarova Gulnara said Shen Yun’s music “makes one feel very joyful,” that “Shen Yun is phenomenally inspiring,” and that she believes “everyone who watched the performance today feels the same way.”
And in Nishinomiya, Japan, an overseas Chinese student said, ”This is what’s truly Chinese.”
“I realize more and more that the history I learned in China is incomplete,” he said. “After seeing Shen Yun, I feel especially proud.
In the first two weeks of May, the last two weeks of Shen Yun 2013, remaining performances will take place in:
- Honolulu
- Chicago
- Madison
- New York’s Albany and Syracuse
May 3, 2013